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dred and ninety-three of the second generation also there, is cer- 

 tainly remarkable. Electioneer has to his credit in the 2:15 list 

 the following trotters: Arion, 2:07f, Sunol,2:08i, Palo Alto, 2:081, 

 Helena, 2:12|, Belleflower, 2:12f, Utility, 2:13, Quality, 2:13i, 

 Conductor, 2:14^, and Norval, 2:14f, an "extreme speed list "' 

 greater than to the credit of any other sire, while among the get 

 of his sons are such trotters as Azote, 2:04f, Fantasy, 2:06, 

 Little Albert, 2:10, Lynne Bel, 2:10, Copeland, 2:1H, Athanio, 

 2:1 If, Cobwebs, 2:12, etc., etc. Sixty-five of his sons have sired 

 four hundred and thirty-seven performers, and forty-three of his 

 daughters have produced fifty-six performers. With all these 

 facts kept in view the study of the above table will prove interest- 

 ing and instructive in forming an estimate of the merit of Elec- 

 tioneer as a trotting progenitor. 



ALEXANDER'S ABDALLAH was the founder of one of the 

 very greatest of the Hambletonian sub-families, and he stands in 

 the records as a progenitor of the first rank. This was a stout 

 bay horse, about fifteen and one-half hands high. Excepting a 

 right white ankle he was a rich solid bay. The only reliable 

 portrait in existence of this horse was a drawing by Herbert 

 Kittredge, made from a photograph taken of Abdallah after he 

 went to Kentucky. The picture of Abdallah published in this work 

 is u faithful reproduction of the Kittredge portrait published in 

 Wallace's Monthly for March, 1881, and in the absence of any 

 reliable detailed description of the horse this portrait must be 

 taken as the best reflection we now have of his individuality. 

 He was bred by Lewis J. Sutton, of Warwick, Orange County, 

 Xew York, and was foaled 1852. Mr. Sutton had in 1851 a 

 good road mare that he had got at Carl Young's roadhouse in 

 Third Avenue, New York. This mare, Katy Darling, had been 

 quite a trotter, and had, it was said, won a match race on Union 

 Course. Her reputation as a trotter and her fine form caused 

 Mr. Sutton to buy her when, as he describes it, "she was stand- 

 ing on three legs," in the hope of getting a foal from her. He 

 took her home in March, 1851, and in August bred her to 

 Rysdyk's Hambletonian, then a two-year-old colt, and Septem- 

 ber 22, 1852, she produced the subject of this sketch. Two years 

 later Mr. Sutton sold Katy Darling to James W. Benedict, of 

 Warwick, from whom she was purchased by Hezekiah Hoyt, who 

 took her to Muscatine, Iowa, where she produced a chestnut colt 

 that was gelded, by Hector, son of La Tourrett's Bellfounder. 



